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All the cars in our neighborhood that were parked in the street got egged last night. mine took it pretty bad and I wondered if anybody had good tips on getting a guy off. It's cake then there pretty good right now. this is the third time I've been egged and everytime it ruins more more of my paint on the car.

I hope you have solved your problem, but if not, this article is interesting. It is part of a longer article with lots of good info about cleaning up egged surfaces like your house...

Our house, along with several other houses, got egged one Halloween some 20 years ago. I got it cleaned off everything but the front door which had to be repainted. I was lucky because I knew about it within minutes and started hosing down the mess. Luckily, the eggs had all landed around our front door so not much got onto the stucco. I confronted the parents of the boys who did the egging and of course they said their little darlings wouldn't do such a thing. I remember telling the father, "OK, I'll just call the police and give them the details including the fact that every kid at the bustop had heard your boys laughing about how many eggs they had thrown." The police didn't, or couldn't, do anything except talk to the parents. Those boys gave our house a wide berth after that.---------------------------------

"Egg on a Car

Got egg on your car? It's a different story than cleaning siding or windows, as using any cleaner that doesn't have a pH close to a neutral 7.0 stands a substantial chance of damaging the clear-coat outer paint layer. Best advice is to use plenty of water to hydrate the stain (try setting the lawn sprinkler onto the car for a couple of hours), and then using a commercial car-wash detergent and a terry-cloth towel or microfiber car-polishing cloth to gently rub the stain off. There are no kitchen products or devices (like that nylon pot scrubber or rubber spatula) suitable for use on automotive paint. Still, the car wash may leave stains behind, probably caused by the chemicals in the egg yolk etching the paint and dulling its shiny finish. That's when to use, carefully, an automotive auto-body rubbing compound to restore the clear coat's shine. Follow the directions on the label. "

If you need to remove a light stain from car paint, I used to use DuPont #7 wax. It has a very fine rubbing compound in it that makes old paint look like new. There are others now-a-days but duPont #7 has been around many years. I pissed off my father-in-law by polishing a small section of a red car he had that the paint had become sort of chalky looking on the surface. To make things better, I ended up polishing the entire car... it made it look like a new paint job.

I did get a rubbing compound and it helped. The smell was awful. Its still slightly there. I still have a little egg damage. Ine of the neighbors told me they they were pretty sure it was someone in a car. They hit a few cars on other streets too.